A Letter from the Conference’s Chair As a health leader and Certified Health Executive (CHE) with more than 35 years experience from coast to coast, I find this conference continues to inspire me and is an ideal offering. Ideal because of its’ smaller size, participant mix, speaker perspectives, and practical content. These are just a […]

Factories in China have begun replacing humans with robots. The appetite for European-made industrial robots is rapidly growing, as rising wages, a shrinking workforce, and cultural changes drive more Chinese businesses towards automation. Recently, China showcased its burgeoning robot industry at the 2016 World Robot Conference in Beijing. This was part of a national effort […]

Not many people might know or be aware but libraries have played and have been playing an integral role in community services over the past many years. Nevertheless, we find that in an increasingly digital work, the role of libraries as community and cultural centers is being undervalued. In recent times, the municipal budgets have […]

Health care is an area that greatly benefits from technology and Canada is no exemption. New technologies in healthcare mean that healthcare professionals can provide better and higher quality of care for the patients. The technologies can be in many different areas, such as diagnosis as well as treatment. For example, certain machines can be […]

In the late 1980s, many people were sure that there would be flying cars by the year 2015 because of how such cars were depicted in the Back to the Future series. It is 2018, and even though there are no flying cars – although Elon Musk recently launched a midnight cherry Tesla Roadster into […]

Providing patients with the best possible care using latest technology is quickly becoming one of the most important aspects of healthcare today. In these modern times of fast and ample communication, health care professionals have to remain in touch and up to date with various technological advancements more ever than before. The IoT, Big Data […]

Mining contributed $56 billion to Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2015. And, the industry accounted for 19% of the value of Canadian goods exports in 2015. Canada’s long history in mining has already teamed up with a more positive global economic outlook to boost the primary equity markets that Canadian resource companies turn to […]

Blockchain technology is transforming the way IoT is viewed and is impacting on a vast range of industries. By allowing digital information to be distributed but not copied, blockchain technology created the backbone of a new type of internet. Originally devised for the digital currency, Bitcoin, the tech community is now finding other potential uses for the […]

The healthcare industry is seeing and, will experience big changes in the years ahead. New tech minds in the market, more technologies in smartphone and wearables space, the introduction of the Affordable Care Act–these could all have a wide influence, transforming a sector that hasn’t always moved quickly. Wearable Tracking Devices Patients with a serious […]

Machine learning is the understanding of the structure data, so that accurate predictions can be made based on the properties of that data. Some healthcare and technology innovators are collaborating and trying to change our today’s reality by experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Computers and the algorithms they run can scrub massive amounts of data—much […]